29 June 2011

A Poetic Giveaway with Red or Gray Art

The giveaway is now closed. Thank you all for participating! The winner is announced at the end of this post.

Poetry is one of my driving forces. I must admit that I find it everywhere, not only in words. When I "met" Elaine from Red or Gray Art I felt excited and uplifted by the air around her and couldn't wait to present her poetic soul to you!

Today I am so honored to involve you in a lovely giveaway sponsored by Red or Gray Art! Elaine is generously offering a gift certificate for her etsy store worth $20! 

Once you win, you will be able to choose between any of the many intricate and truly amazing items. I promise you, you will love every single thing Elaine has created!

    HOW TO ENTER:

Mandatory:
1. Heart Red or Gray Art on etsy and write that you did in the comments - 1 entry

Optional:
You must complete the mandatory entry before doing the optional. Also, leave a separate comment for each of the following:

2. Share with us your favorite poem - 1 entry
3. Like Red or Gray Art on Facebook and leave a comment here (If you are already following, just say so in the comments) - 1 entry
4. Follow Kanelstrand Organic Living publicly via Google Friend Connect - 1 entry
5. Post on Facebook about the giveaway - 1 entry 

Additional:
6. Traditionally, all of you, who commented under Elaine's interview (before the beginning of the giveaway) will get one more entry (just add a comment saying that you have commented on the interview)!

TERMS & CONDITIONS:
  • It is possible to have up to 5 entries (6 for the readers who have already commented on Elaine's interview).
  • You must leave a way for me to contact you if you win (have your email address listed in your profile, post your email address with your comment, email me or convo me in etsy).
  • The deadline to enter is Friday, July 8, 2011 at 23:00 CET.
  • This giveaway is open worldwide! 
Comment date stamps must be recorded by 23:00 CET on Friday, July 8, 2011 to be eligible. The winner's name will be drawn via random.org and will be announced shortly after in this post, so make sure you check back to see if you won!
Good luck!

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And, the winner of the poetic giveaway is...
 CONGRATULATIONS! 
We will be contacting you soon!

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64 comments:

  1. Easy, as you 2 are already in my favorites !
    Already hearted red or gray art a long time ago :)

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  2. I have always loved Red or Gray and have just hearted it!!! Yay!

    Mubin,
    India
    mubinster@gmail.com

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  3. My favourite poem... (I am so thrilled you thought of this)

    Bach and My Father

    Six days a week my father sold shoes
    To support our family through depression and war,
    Nursed his wife through years of Parkinson's,
    Loved nominal cigars, manhattans, long jokes,
    Never kissed me, but always shook my hand.

    Once he came to visit me when a Brandenburg
    Was on the stereo. He listened with care—
    Brisk melodies, symmetry, civility, and passion.
    When it finished, he asked to hear it again,
    Moving his right hand in time. He would have
    Risen to dance if he had known how.

    "Beautiful," he said when it was done,
    My father, who'd never heard a Brandenburg.
    Eighty years old, bent, and scuffed all over,
    Just in time he said, "That's beautiful."

    By Paul Zimmer

    Mubin,
    India,
    mubinster@gmail.com

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  4. I long liked Red or Gray on FB and love 'like'ing and commenting on new pictures and posts...

    Mubin,
    India
    mubinster@gmail.com

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  5. And I happily commented on Elaine's lovely interview! Yay!!!

    Mubin,
    mubinster@gmail.com

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  6. I've been a fan for a long time! She's in my favorites.

    Gloria

    Lolailo.etsy.com

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  7. So many favorite poems! I'll choose this one:

    Prayer

    Whatever happens. Whatever
    what is is is what
    I want. Only that. But that.

    ~ Galway Kinnell ~

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  8. Great terms I must say! the poem optional requirement is a lovely idea! Stop by my blog, I also have a giveaway with 18prizes of 300$!

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  9. i heart red or gray on easy
    yanuzo at hotmail dot com

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  10. i follow kanelstrand on gfc
    yanuzo at hotmail dot com

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  11. Hearted!

    My favorite poem of the moment is "Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond" by e.e. cummings:

    somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
    any experience,your eyes have their silence:
    in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
    or which i cannot touch because they are too near

    your slightest look easily will unclose me
    though i have closed myself as fingers,
    you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
    (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

    or if your wish be to close me, i and
    my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
    as when the heart of this flower imagines
    the snow carefully everywhere descending;

    nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
    the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
    compels me with the color of its countries,
    rendering death and forever with each breathing

    (i do not know what it is about you that closes
    and opens;only something in me understands
    the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
    nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

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  12. Red & Gray is already a fave and now you are too ... follow in Facebook as well.
    Fave saying:
    Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
    Boldness has genius, power and magic in it! ~Goethe

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  13. I have hearted Red & Gray's etsy site.

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  14. My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
    My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
    The more I have, for both are infinite.
    ~Wm. Shakespeare (Romeo & Juliet)

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  15. I follow Kanelstrand Organic Living.

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  16. I hearted your shop (FataAzzurra)

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  17. hearted Red or Gray Art on etsy- username bokononist

    marija.majerle at gmail dot com

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  18. following you via GFC

    marija.majerle at gmail dot com

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  19. i heart'd your shop: solideogloria

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  20. I have commented on the interview post

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  21. Hearted Red or Gray Art on etsy as Kaziuta

    gogunia3(at)wp(dot)pl

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  22. I only found Elaine's wonderful blog today and it led me to this give-away!
    Of course I hearted her beautiful shop gladly.
    And I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

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  23. hearted red or gray art, love the birdies!

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  24. One of my favorite poems is "Hope" is the thing with feathers - that perches in the soul... by Emily Dickinson

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  25. I "hearted" Red or Gray Art on Etsy!

    ckian.cw.blog@gmail.com

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  26. I "liked" Red or Gray Art on Facebook as Alyssa J Dannettel!

    ckian.cw.blog@gmail.com

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  27. hearted the sop - diarygirly

    diarygirl at live dot com

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  28. I hearted Red or Gray Art on etsy! (oksana2372)

    Thank you for the chance!

    ksyshenka(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  29. I like Red or Gray Art on Facebook!

    (oksana vladimirovna)

    ksyshenka(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  30. Following Kanelstrand Organic Living publicly via Google Friend Connect! (ksyshenka)

    ksyshenka(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  31. Shared on FB:

    http://www.facebook.com/#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=244699562222469&id=100000966605964

    (oksana vladimirovna)

    ksyshenka(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  32. I hearted Red or Gray Art on etsy, my etsy username is: daer0n.

    Nury77 at live dot ca

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  33. I wouldn't coax the plant
    if I were you~
    such watchful nurturing may do it harm
    let the soil rest from so much digging
    and wait until it's dry before you water it

    The leaf's inclined to find it's own direction
    give it a chance to seek the sunlight for itself..Much growth is stunted by too careful prodding to eager tenderness

    The things we love
    we have to learn
    to leave alone~

    Naomi Long Madgett~


    Nury77 at live dot ca

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  34. I like Red Gray Art on fb: Daeron Mel.

    Nury77 at live dot ca

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  35. I posted this giveaway on fb:
    http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=143057359102536&id=100001042776974

    Nury77 at live dot ca

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  36. I hearted Red or Gray Art on Etsy (hellokiki)

    ohkeeka at gmail dot com

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  37. I follow your blog on GFC

    ohkeeka at gmail dot com

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  38. I hearted your shop on Etsy

    redshadow1606@gmail.com

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  39. Whose woods these are I think I know.
    His house is in the village, though;
    He will not see me stopping here
    To watch his woods fill up with snow.
    My little horse must think it queer
    To stop without a farmhouse near
    Between the woods and frozen lake
    The darkest evening of the year.

    He gives his harness bells a shake
    To ask if there is some mistake.
    The only other sound's the sweep
    Of easy wind and downy flake.
    The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.

    redshadow1606@gmail.com

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  40. I liked on FB

    redshadow1606@gmail.com

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  41. I follow on GFC

    redshadow1606@gmail.com

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  42. I shared on FB

    http://etsygiveaways.blogspot.com/2011/06/20-gift-certificate-giveaway-ends-0708.html

    redshadow1606@gmail.com

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  43. I follow on GFC. Thank you so much. Carolyn McIntyre, Samandcarolyn1@aol.com

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  44. I hearted Red or Grey art on Etsy. Happyhummingbird is my username there. Thank you so much. Carolyn McIntyre, Samandcarolyn1@aol.com

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  45. I like Red or Grey art on Facebook. Thank you so much. Carolyn McIntyre, Samandcarolyn1@aol.com

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  46. Here is my very favorite poem. It was hard to choose. Thank you so much! Carolyn McIntyre, Samandcarolyn1@aol.com


    The Child In Him

    I loved the child in him
    so innocent and sweet
    The mischief in his eyes
    the blush upon his cheek
    The tender way he spoke
    that showed me that he cared
    The touch of his warm hand
    that gently touched my hair
    The smiles that we shared
    that filled my life with glee
    For when I was with him
    I found the child in me

    Jean Gabor

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  47. I "hearted" Red or Grey art on Etsy! Lacey414 is my username there. Thanks!

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  48. CNJCeramics hearted Red or Gray Art on Etsy.

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  49. My Favorite poem is William Blake - Auguries of Innocence

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  50. Clay Space liked Red or Gray on FB.

    charie at clay-space dot com

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  51. This is my favorite!
    I need you by my side
    Not because
    You will take care of me
    Not because
    You will shower love on me
    Not because
    You will share my concerns
    Not because
    You will ensure my dreams come true
    I need you by my side always
    As this will give me an opportunity
    To witness your growth
    To understand you better
    To be of some help as and when you need
    To be part of your joy
    To cry with you when you experience pain
    To offer my shoulder for you to lean upon
    To keep you enthusiastically motivated
    To know your dreams
    To wonder at your skills as you realize them
    To pass on a legacy, if it happens I have one
    To fathom over your spiritual chase
    To comprehend you in totality
    And simply
    To demonstrate my love for you
    Yes
    I need you very much by my side

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  52. Hello and TY for this possibility!

    I hearted Red or Gray Art on Etsy, I am Tirabaralla on Etsy.

    tirabaralla{at}yahoo{dot}com

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  53. My favourite poem is probably this:

    "M'illumino
    d'immenso"

    You can find more about it, meaning included, here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Ungaretti
    (under "Poetry")

    tirabaralla{at}yahoo{dot}com

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  54. I liked Red or Gray Art on Facebook, I am Giovanna V. on FB.

    tirabaralla{at}yahoo{dot}com

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  55. I am now following your blog publicly via GFC as Tirabaralla :)

    tirabaralla{at}yahoo{dot}com

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  56. I Hearted Red or Gray Art on Etsy!

    casleycassandra at gmail dot com

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  57. I am following via GFC

    casleycassandra at gmail dot com

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  58. Favourite poem is currently e. e. cummings:

    i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
    my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
    i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
    by only me is your doing,my darling)
    i fear
    no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
    no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
    and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
    and whatever a sun will always sing is you

    here is the deepest secret nobody knows
    (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
    and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
    higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
    and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

    i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

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  59. I hearted her shop...it's lovely!

    valerietylerdesigns AT YAHOO dotcom

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